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830L
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English
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Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only...
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France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, refugees begin flooding into Paris and German artillery fire rattles the city. Once they reach Paris, the Nazis will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. Anne is quickly sent to the Castle of Chambord, where the Louvre's most precious...
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"After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply...
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English
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"Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
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English
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An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man and the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies bombed, the Room was hidden, and it has never been seen since. But now, the hunt has begun once more. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything...
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Pike Logan thriller volume 10
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English
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"World War is on the horizon in New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's tenth heart-pounding Pike Logan thriller. The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria to the Baltic States, the Taskforce is placed...
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"Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR--a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they've looted from Jewish families. Fabienne Brandt was a rising star in the Parisian bohemian...
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Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An American woman on assignment in Italy to photograph the frontlines during World War II finds love after becoming involved with a soldier dedicated to saving great monuments and works of art from the Third Reich.
11) Woman in gold
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an American Army unit arrived at the end of the World War II, some soldiers appropriated items in what appeared to be abandoned. A small painting by a mid-level Polish painter is used by an ex-GI to float a bank loan which results in the founding of a manufacturing firm in Minneapolis. Now the painting and the ledger become the center of murderous attempts by the descendants of the veteran to conceal the painting's journey. World-wide efforts...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1943. Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans works as a typist at the Yale Art Gallery. When both women are called to Italy, neither imagines she will hold the fate of some of the world's greatest masterpieces torn from the Uffizi Galleries and other Florentine art collections in her hands. As Italy turns from ally to enemy,...
14) Loot: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Mara Coyne represents an auction house that is trying to prove that the Chrysalis, a 16th century masterpiece by Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld, wasn't stolen from a Dutch collector by the Nazis. She discovers that documents from the auction house have been forged and goes to London to discover the truth.
16) The last Vermeer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When World War II threatens Renato's home of Florence, Renato and his family must leave his beloved, art-filled city for America, but Renato worries about protecting his favorite sculpture--the stone lion in the Piazza della Signoria.